How common is the surname Standish?

3,189 people in the United States had the surname Standish in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,816 Americans. It ranked 10,099th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Standish?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Standish identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Standish getting more or less common?

More common. 3,062 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,189 in 2010, up 4.1%.

The surname Standish

A surname, carried by 3,189 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S353

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Standish is more common than 93.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,189 people named Standish in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,816 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,062.

#10,099

rank among US surnames

3,189

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #9,742)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,090	Koziol	3,194	96,664
#10,092	Mines	3,193	96,694
#10,095	Perrault	3,190	96,785
#10,099	Standish	3,189	96,816
#10,103	Genao	3,188	96,846
#10,107	Calabro	3,187	96,877

Who is named Standish

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Standish identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
Two or more races 1.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Standish

Standish has the Soundex code S353, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S353.

Questions

How common is the surname Standish?: 3,189 people in the United States had the surname Standish in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,816 Americans. It ranked 10,099th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Standish?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Standish identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Standish getting more or less common?: More common. 3,062 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,189 in 2010, up 4.1%.